Simon Schempp

Simon Schempp
Association	Germany
birthday	November 14, 1988 (31 years)
place of birth	Mutlangen , Germany
size	178 cm
Career
job	Customs officer
society	Ski guild Uhingen
Trainer	Steffen Hauswald
Debut in the World Cup	March 11, 2009
World Cup victories	18 (12 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 4 × 2 × 2 × EM medals 1 × 1 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 2 × 0 × JEM medals 2 × 1 × 2 × National medals 9 × 4 × 6 ×
winter Olympics silver 2014 Sochi Season silver 2018 Pyeongchang Mass start bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Season  Biathlon world championships gold 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Mixed relay bronze 2012 Ruhpolding Season bronze 2013 Nové Město Season gold 2015 Kontiolahti Season silver 2016 Oslo Mixed relay silver 2016 Oslo Season gold 2017 Hochfilzen Mixed relay gold 2017 Hochfilzen Mass start  European biathlon championships silver 2009 Ufa Season gold 2010 Otepää Season Biathlon Junior World Championships gold 2007 Martell Season bronze 2007 Martell persecution bronze 2008 Ruhpolding Season gold 2009 Canmore Season silver 2009 Canmore persecution  Biathlon Junior European Championships silver 2009 Ufa sprint silver 2009 Ufa persecution  German championships bronze 2009 Ruhpolding Season bronze 2009 Ruhpolding Mass start bronze 2011 Langdorf Season gold 2013 Ruhpolding Mass start silver 2014 Altenberg persecution silver 2014 Oberhof singles silver 2014 Oberhof Mass start gold 2015 Langdorf persecution silver 2015 Ruhpolding Season bronze 2015 Ruhpolding Mass start gold 2016 Altenberg sprint gold 2016 Altenberg persecution gold 2017 Arber persecution bronze 2017 Arber sprint gold 2017 Ruhpolding Season bronze 2018 Oberhof Season gold 2019 Arber sprint gold 2019 Arber persecution gold 2019 Ruhpolding Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	4. ( 2014/15 , 2015/16 )
Individual World Cup	9. (2015/16, 2017/18 )
Sprint World Cup	2. (2015/16)
Pursuit World Cup	4. (2014/15)
Mass start world cup	2. ( 2016/17 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 1 sprint 5 4th 1 persecution 4th 5 0 Mass start 3 1 0 Season 6th 10 11
last change: September 9, 2019

Simon Schempp (born November 14, 1988 in Mutlangen ) is a German biathlete . His greatest successes to date have been winning the world championship title in the 2017 mass start , the silver medal in the mass start at the 2018 Olympic Games and two fourth places in the overall World Cup ratings in 2014/15 and 2015/16 .

Career

Simon Schempp lived in Uhingen as a child , where he also trained for the first few years, and continues to work for the Uhingen Ski Guild . At that time there was only a small training group under the supervision of his father Reiner Schempp, who himself was a biathlete member of the national team. Since the training conditions in Uhingen were not the best, Schempp also trained in Gosheim or Ulm . The units there took place under the direction of Reiner Schempp, Mathias Rösch and Roland Schmauder. Between 2004 and 2008 Schempp attended the ski boarding school in Furtwangen and was trained there by Steffen Hauswald . He did his Abitur at the ski boarding school and was also awarded the Alfred Maul Memorial Medal for outstanding performance in sport , which was presented to him by Simone Hauswald . He has been training in Ruhpolding since 2008 and competes for the Zoll Ski Team .

Schempp has competed internationally in the Junior European Cup since 2006. In his first race in Obertilliach he won a sprint and came second in the pursuit race. In 2007 he ran his first Junior World Championship in Martell . In South Tyrol he was fifth in the individual, fourth in the sprint, won bronze in the pursuit race and, together with Daniel Böhm , Sebastian Berthold and Christoph Stephan, the gold medal in the relay competition. A year later in Ruhpolding, ninth place in the individual was the worst result, in sprint and pursuit he was fifth and won the bronze medal with Manuel Müller , Arnd Peiffer and Florian Graf with the relay. The 2009 season was particularly successful. At the Junior World Championships in Canmore , Schempp reached sixth place in the sprint, was fifth in the individual, won silver in the pursuit behind Lukas Hofer and the gold medal with the relay alongside Erik Lesser , Benedikt Dolls and Grafs. At the European Junior Championships in Ufa he just missed a medal in fourth place in the individual, in the sprint and the pursuit he won the silver medals behind the Norwegian Tarjei Bø . For the relay race he was used in the men's relay race, which was held at the same time as the European Junior Championship . Together with Böhm, Norbert Schiller and Christoph Knie , he won the silver medal behind the relay from Norway and showed a good performance in his first race in the adult category.

After the European Championships, Simon Schempp was appointed to the World Cup team for the first time by national coach Frank Ullrich and made his debut with a 24th place in the individual at the Biathlon World Cup in Whistler , the dress rehearsal for the 2010 Winter Olympics . In the sprint two days later he even reached 17th place. The next day he came to his first appearance in a German relay. As a starting runner, he formed the youngest season ever to start in the World Cup for Germany, together with Böhm, Peiffer and Michael Rösch , and came third with it, this was his first step onto the podium in the World Cup. After a mixed season in 2009/10 , in which Schempp managed half the Olympic standard and showed two good relay appearances, he was traded as a candidate for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver . But a massive drop in performance, which was due to physical exhaustion, almost prevented the nomination. The DOSB finally nominated Schempp for the games. There he was used as the starting runner of the German relay team and finished fifth , together with Andreas Birnbacher , Arnd Peiffer and Michael Greis . A few days later, he and Erik Lesser , Daniel Böhm and Christoph Knie won gold in the German men's relay at the 2010 European Biathlon Championships in Otepää . At the World Cup in Kontiolahti 2010, Schempp took second place in the German mixed relay with Kati Wilhelm , Magdalena Neuner and Erik Lesser. At the following World Cup at Holmenkollen , Simon Schempp ran after ninth place in the sprint in pursuit with faultless shooting performance to second place, making it for the first time in an individual race in the World Cup to make it onto the podium. In the last race of the 2009/2010 season, he achieved his greatest success to date. In Chanty-Mansiysk he became world champion in the mixed relay together with Magdalena Neuner, Simone Hauswald and Arnd Peiffer.

Schempp together with Jakov Fak and Jean-Guillaume Béatrix on the podium after the World Cup sprint in Nové Město 2015.

Nationally, Schempp won the individual title of the German Junior Championships in Langdorf in 2007 , and bronze in the Kaltenbrunn sprint in 2008 . At the German Championships in 2008 , sixth place in the sprint was the best individual result, in the cup standings (overall standings) he finished 17th. National trainer Franz Bernreiter described the strong runner Schempp as the greatest German talent in biathlon. At the German Championships in 2009 , Schempp secured third place in the relay and in the mass start.

Together with Andreas Birnbacher , he made his triathlon debut at the 1st Chiemsee Triathlon in 2012. In the field occupied by numerous triathlon professionals, he came in 21st place with a time of 4: 16: 48.3 for the two kilometers of swimming, 80 kilometers of cycling and 20 kilometers of running.

On January 17, 2014, Schempp won his first World Cup race at the same time as Lukas Hofer in the sprint competition in Antholz. The following day he won the pursuit race and celebrated his second World Cup victory. At the Olympic Games in Sochi , Schempp won a silver medal as the final runner of the relay. For this, he was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf on May 8, 2014 by Federal President Joachim Gauck . He had previously missed a possible medal in sixth place in the pursuit due to a mistake in the last shot.

Simon Schempp made history with victories on January 22nd and 24th, 2015 in Antholz by becoming the first athlete to win the same races in two consecutive years at the same location. On March 14, 2015, he won the 2015 World Championships in Kontiolahti , Finland, together with Erik Lesser , Daniel Böhm and Arnd Peiffer . In 2016, he won silver in the mixed and men's relay at the World Championships in Oslo .

At the 2017 Biathlon World Championships in Hochfilzen , he won gold with the mixed relay and, with gold, his first individual World Championship medal in the final mass start race.

At the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang , Simon Schempp won the silver medal in the mass start and the bronze medal in the relay .

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race

No. date place discipline 1. Jan. 17, 2014  Antholz sprint 2. Jan. 18, 2014  Antholz persecution 3. Jan. 18, 2015  Ruhpolding Mass start 4th Jan. 22, 2015  Antholz sprint 5. Jan. 24, 2015  Antholz persecution 6th Dec 11, 2015  Hochfilzen sprint 7th Dec 17, 2015  Pokljuka sprint 8th. 19 Dec 2015  Pokljuka persecution 9. Jan. 22, 2016  Antholz sprint 10. 19 Mar 2016  Khanty-Mansiysk persecution 11. 0Jan. 8, 2017  Oberhof Mass start 12. 19th Feb 2017  Hochfilzen ( WM ) Mass start

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. 28 Mar 2010  Khanty-Mansiysk (WM) Mixed season 1 2. Dec 13, 2013  Annecy - Le Grand-Bornand Season 2 3. 14 Mar 2015  Kontiolahti (WM) Season 3 4th 0Feb 7, 2016  Canmore Mixed season 4 5. Jan. 21, 2017  Antholz Season 5 6th 0Feb 9, 2017  Hochfilzen (WM) Mixed season 6 1with Simone Hauswald , Magdalena Neuner and Arnd Peiffer 2with Erik Lesser , Andreas Birnbacher and Arnd Peiffer 3with Erik Lesser, Daniel Böhm and Arnd Peiffer 4thwith Franziska Hildebrand , Franziska Preuß and Arnd Peiffer 5with Erik Lesser, Benedikt Doll and Arnd Peiffer 6thwith Vanessa Hinz , Laura Dahlmeier and Arnd Peiffer

World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Relay: including mixed relays

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	total
1st place		5	4th	3	6th	18th
2nd place	1	4th	5	1	10	21st
3rd place	1	1			10	12
Top 10	5	26th	23	11	40	105
Scoring	15th	54	46	27	41	183
Starts	18th	69	47	27	41	202
Status: end of season 2017/18

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

	Individual competitions				Relay competitions
	sprint	persecution	singles	Mass start	Men's relay	Mixed relay
2010 Winter Olympics | Vancouver	-	-	-	-	5.
Olympic Winter Games 2014 | Sochi	15th	6th	16.	13.	2.	DSQ 1
Olympic Winter Games 2018 | Pyeongchang	7th	5.	36.	2.	3.	-

¹The mixed relay was disqualified due to a doping offense by Evi Sachsenbacher-Stehle .

World Cup ratings

Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system .

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2010/11	60.	13	-	-	70.	13	-	-	87.	26th
2011/12	16.	59	28.	116	21st	132	27.	60	26th	367
2012/13	63.	6th	27.	127	32.	106	17th	102	29	341
2013/14	25th	32	11.	214	6th	220	20th	62	10.	528
2014/15	14th	64	3.	354	4th	228	7th	146	4th	792
2015/16	9.	79	2.	316	6th	251	14th	123	4th	769
2016/17	13.	68	11.	209	6th	233	2.	231	5.	741
2017/18	9.	53	7th	212	16.	140	25th	79	12.	484

Private

Simon Schempp was in a relationship with the biathlete Miriam Gössner from 2008 to 2011 . The biathlete Franziska Preuß has been his girlfriend since winter 2015/16 .

Web links

Commons : Simon Schempp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Simon Schempp
• Simon Schempp in the database of the IBU (English)
• Simon Schempp at the Federal Customs Administration

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait - Simon Schempp . XNX GmbH. February 6, 2008. Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
2. ↑ Schempp celebrates first World Cup victory , sport1.de. Retrieved January 18, 2014.
3. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. The Federal President , May 5, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2020 . 
4. ^ IOC Disciplinary Commision Decision. In: IOC. February 21, 2014, accessed March 18, 2014 .  (pdf)
5. ↑ Interview with Miriam Gössner. www.biathlon-online.de, accessed on December 3, 2010 . 
6. ^ A dream couple in the German biathlon. Sport1.de, November 21, 2016, accessed December 18, 2016 .